From a health point of view, how many days a

[Sarah I]

week are suggested to work out for an optimal fitness level? 1-2 3-4 5-6 7 To achieve gains in fitness, the minimum number of weeks should be: 2-3 4 6 8From a health point of view, how many days a week are suggested to maintain your present level? 1 3 5 6 Please Help!!!Thank You. To the best answer!

[jblair]

3-4 days a week. you want to give your body time to rest.

[michaellabibin]

Actually, it's more complicated than that. It depends on many factors, how do you eat and what do you eat is very important. Do you have an active job, do you take a lot of rest each day, how many hours do you sleep.You should not exercise more than 4 times per week, 2 weight training sessions and 2 cardio. Thus you will have a strong body from inside, cardio makes a strong heart, and from outside, weight training will give you muscles. Every 6 weeks you can take 1 recovery week, just do one session of cardio-weight training exercises in this week.You need to do stretching and warm up exercises before and after your workout, that way you will exercise better.If you exercise much and don't give your body the time to recover, it will be bad for your immunity system and your overall health.

[rice01]

well in my point of view it depends on your body....
if you want to weight loos then u have to workout 5 or 6 days in a week and for youngsters who want's to become a good body builder they have to workout 6 days in a week and one day for body rest....

[jstevenson]

4 days a week is fine for me.